fonts

What fonts do iPhone applications support?

Hi, I found a list of iPhone supported font here http://daringfireball.net/misc/2007/07/iphone-osx-fonts But I just wanted to confirm that, can we use all this fonts in application, or we are restricted to some class of fonts. thanks in advance. ...

Is it appropriate to use "Wingdings" fonts in a Windows Forms or WPF app?

I have a WPF control, that has a list of "Investors", and in the right column of the list, a "Delete" button. I could either waste some time making an image of an "x" in photoshop. Or, I could just use Wingdings font and set the content to "Õ" (which makes a cool looking delete button). Is this appropriate? My thinking is... while not ...

.net windows forms & picking Vista fonts

I'm building a .net application with windows forms. I'm pondering on the following problem: If I specify fonts in my application that are available only in Vista and Office 07, what will happen when the application tries to run in a machine without these ? I suppose the system won't be able to fall back to a font of it's family, since t...

How do you use fonts after installing xna

I've downloaded a tutorial that had fonts included in the source. When I try to build the project, I always get the following error message: Error 1 The font family "Joystick" could not be found. Please ensure the requested font is installed, and is a TrueType or OpenType font. The font was added via the control panel, and i...

Is it true, visual studio can't handle fonts installed after it was ?

I was trying to solve my XNA Font problem, when I found this here: Visual Studio doesn’t recognize any fonts you add after it is up and running. Is there a way to use fonts installed after Visual Studio? After finding out that is was the Font file why would the tutorial mention something like that ? ...

Getting .Net Font information?

Is there a wrapper around the Win32 API for getting font information without actually instantiating an instance of the .NET Font class? For example, some fonts do not have a regular style so I need to determine what styles are valid for a font without actually creating an instance of it. ...

Why doesn't an installed font show up in the font picker dialog?

I've installed an OpenType font on my development machine expecting to then be able to choose that font for a label on a form. The font is available in MS Word so I'm reasonably confident it was installed ok, but I can't see the font in the font-picker dialog for the label in Visual Studio. I also checked the font settings in Tools > O...

Is there a way to use custom fonts in a PDF file?

Well basically I'm finishing school in mid December so I'm just brushing up my resume and I'm wondering if there's a way to use custom fonts (in this case Calibri and Cambria) in a PDF file and make them render correctly on all computers. Thanks in advance! EDIT: I'm using MS Word 2007, but am open to suggestions ...

BlendFunc for textured fonts with changing background

I am attempting to use Textured fonts as so that I can display text in my openGL scene. However I am having trouble finding glBlendFunc values that will work. The background that the text will be placed on is a grayscale image but will change throughout the execution. Because the background changes the text could possibly be on top of ...

Changing font tracking in Cocoa

I'm doing some text rendering in Cocoa using NSAttributedString, and setting the font and underline properties and all that jazz. However, I can't figure out how I can change the text's tracking. Any suggestions? ...

Is there really any point to using relative font sizing in CSS?

I've read a lot about the pros and cons of sizing with either relative or absolute font sizes. Fixed sizes don't zoom in IE6 but that's not much of an issue these days. Accessibility is important, but I assume that all good accessibility software is built to deal with these issues? I guess it mainly comes down to whether you want to be ...

Can you use a TextFormat object to set a text component's font to a system font?

I'm trying to switch back and forth between an embedded font (used for English-language characters) and the _sans system font (used to display Chinese characters) in an input field. I'm looking at the charCode of the typed-in character, prior to displaying it, and determining the appropriate font to use, and setting the defaultTextForma...

Default font for Windows Forms application

Hello, Everytime I create new form in my application, it uses "Microsoft Sans Serif, 8.25pt" font by default. I'm not changing it, because I know that in this case my form will pick up whatever default font in system is. However, when I run my application, the font is still anything but Segoe UI. Why this happens? How do I make sure th...

What is the best (free) Font Explorer for Windows?

I am looking for an alternative to my old "Font Navigator" that I... borrowed... from the CorelDraw Suite :-) Googling for it, took me to hundreds of pages with old software, so I hope to find a quick idea from here (waiting for FontExplorer X from Linotype). Which Font Explorer for Windows do you currently use? My "requisites" are: ...

dotnet: How do you get average character width for a font?

Windows Forms: For System.Drawing there is a way to get the font height. Font font = new Font("Arial", 10 , FontStyle.Regular); float fontHeight = font.GetHeight(); But how do you get the other text metrics like average character width? ...

What is the ideal font for OCR?

Does anybody have any experience with different fonts for OCR? I am generating an ID then trying to scan it with tesseract. At the moment I am just T&E'n different fonts, but this seems pretty inefficient. I've tried the OCR* family of fonts, and various others such as Arial and Georgia. The tesseract tends to get confused with the OCR* ...

email.retr retrieves strange =20 characters when the email body has chinese characters in it.

self.logger.info(msg) popinstance=poplib.POP3(self.account[0]) self.logger.info(popinstance.getwelcome()) popinstance.user(self.account[1]) popinstance.pass_(self.account[2]) try: (numMsgs, totalSize)=popinstance.stat() self.logger.info("POP contains " + str(numMsgs) + " emails") for thisNu...

Does Java work with PCF fonts?

I am trying to make IBM jre to use PCF fonts from default X11 installation on my linux box. In particular adobe-helvetica font. I have toyed to modify fontconfig.properties in jre/lib folder but no matter what I do Java seams to use some other fonts. I guess there is some algorithm how java VM tries to link java logical fonts to actual p...

How do I independently change the width and height of a font in .NET?

Given something like this: thefont = New Font("Courier New", fontheight) and this: ' g is a Graphics object g.DrawString("some text", thefont, Brushes.Black, X, Y) what can I put in the middle of the two to change the width of the font, so that "some text" is expanded or compressed horizontally but the height remains the same? ...

What is the Constant Value of the Underline font in Java ?

What is the Constant Value of the Underline font in Java ? Font.BOLD bold font Font.ITALIC italic font What is the UNDERLINE font Constant ? I try all the available constants but it didn't work . ...